When planning a big family vacation, like my recent one to Disney, all you think about are the beautiful memories that you’re going to make. The squeals of delight from your kids. The pictures that you’ll treasure forever. The epic meltdowns that will haunt you till the end of time.
Wait—what?
Let’s be […]

Don’t judge me, but occasionally, I outright lie to my kid when it comes to the coveted TV. Oh, don’t get me wrong: TV is allowed in our house, with limits. We’re living in the 21st century, I have worked in media for a good part of my professional life, I think that it […]

So, you know how things don’t always go as you plan—especially when you have a 3-year-old? Yeah. Well, here’s the latest installment in that series: I’ve been dying to take my son to Disney, and since I’m nearly 7 months pregnant, we’ve got a very small window in which I can still fly…and then […]

I wrote this post about a month and a half ago, at 19 weeks pregnant. Since I wasn’t ready for the big pregnancy reveal just yet, this post sat patiently on my desktop until I was indeed good and ready. And now, here we are… Kids are amazing. And I mean that in […]

So, why did I take my 3-year-old son to see Cinderella? Because he wanted to see it. It’s that simple.
Every time we saw a commercial for it or walked by our local movie theater, with its huge poster displayed in the window, he’d ask: “Can we go to see that?”
And how […]

I wrote this two weeks ago when I was in Colorado. What took me so long to post it? Combine the vacation time with a much-worried-about solo flight with my son, getting back to the daily grind, a sick dog and a 3-year-old with the stomach flu, and things got…postponed.
But it seemed like […]

When it comes to parenting, I’m weirdly confident. I consider it weird because I tend to second-guess so much else in my life.
But I know that my heart is in the right place when it comes to my son, and even when he’s acting like a little beast, I have the presence of […]

Hi! I'm Dawn Yanek, the mom behind Momsanity. I've got a few thoughts about my wonderfully crazy journey with that cute kid in the picture (who's now 6!) and a toddler—and I look forward to hearing about your adventures in motherhood, too!